Mathias Énard

Mathias Lenard ( born January 11, 1972 in Niort, Deux-Sevres, France ) is a French writer and translator.

Life

Lenard studied at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales ( INALCO ) in Paris, the Arabic and Persian language. After extended stays in the Middle East, he went in 2000 to Barcelona. There he was a member of various cultural magazines. He was also a member of the editorial board of the French magazine for literature and philosophy inculte. From 2010 he taught Arabic at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

ENARD in the years was 2005/2006 scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome. In 2011 he founded in Paris, along with others, the graphic edition scrawitch. In 2013/14 he is a guest of the DAAD Berlin Artists Programme.

His novel zone from 2008 is an inner monologue of a war veterans from the war in Yugoslavia, which goes into a single sentence without a period over 500 pages. The novel took care of its international perception.

Awards and honors

• 2004: Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie for La Perfection du tir
• 2004: Prix Edmée de La Rochefoucauld for the same book
• 2005: scholarship for the Villa Medici in Rome
• 2008: Prix Décembre and Candide price for zone
• 2009: Prix du Livre Inter Zone
• 2010: Prix Goncourt des lycéens for Parle - leur de batailles, de rois et d' éléphants

Publications

• 2005: Remonter l' Orenoque. Actes Sud, Paris.
• 2007: Bréviaire of artificiers. with illustrations by Pierre Marqués, Verticales -.
• 2008: zone. Actes Sud, Paris, ISBN 978-2-7427-9302-0. German 2010: zone. from the French by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8270-0886-2.

• German 2011: Tell them about battles, kings and elephants. from the French by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-8270-1005-6.

• Street of thieves. From the French by Holger Fock and Sabine Muller, Hanser, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24365-1.

• Mirza Habib Esfahani: Epitre de la Queue. Éditeurs Verticales 2004
• Youssef Bazzi: Arafat m'a regarde et m'a souri. Éditions Verticales, 2007